May 11
“Near Coastal and Submerged Land and Evidence of Past Occupation within the Bay of Fundy”. Brent Suttie is the New Brunswick Provincial Archaeologist and Director of the Archaeology Branch of the NB Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture. His specialty is reconstructing past landscapes and determining when they were occupied. Suttie He has been a …
Mar 16
“Warming, ecosystem change, and fisheries in the Gulf of Maine: from understanding to adaptation” Dr. Katherine Mills is an associate research scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine. As a quantitative fisheries ecologist, Kathy has studied ecosystem change and fish-ecosystem relationships in the Gulf of Maine region for over a decade. …
Jan 21
11th BoFEP Bay of Fundy Science Workshop “Fundy in Flux: Challenges for Science, Policy and Society” The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BoFEP) is pleased to announce its 11th biennial BoFEP Bay of Fundy Science Workshop will take place in Fredericton, New Brunswick June 8-10th at the St. Thomas University Conference Center…… #15 Rigby Hall/Forest …
Dec 31
The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership will soon have an environmental health index (EHI) for the area stretching between the U.S. border and the Musquash Estuary. The aim of the BoFEP project is to establish a baseline from which to monitor environmental shifts and provide researchers and policy makers with a practical measure of ecosystem …
Oct 24
Good Day! The BoFEP Annual General Meeting will be held 1-4 pm on Friday, 20 November in the Jennings Dining Hall Banquet Room, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB. (#25 on the map at http://www.mta.ca/mtamap/). The guest speakers will be Scott Kidd who will speak about the OHI (Ocean health Index) project that BoFEP is currently …
Aug 24
A long term goal of BoFEP has been to produce an environmental health index (EHI) for the Bay of Fundy. A 2012-2013 BoFEP project, including a workshop held in St. Andrews in April 2013, determined that the Ocean Health Index (OHI) (www.oceanhealthindex.org) offered a good model for an EHI for the Bay of Fundy. Now …
Jun 14
One hundred years of monitoring in the St. Croix Estuary provides insight into the decade to decade changes in sea surface temperature and surface salinity, helping researchers to better understand the timing of these seasonal cycles and how this might affect the dozens of plankton species inhabiting the area. A research project to review the …
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